Danger Garden rescued a giant bromeliad from their office lobby, and it turns out it’s a Vriesea imperialis. Good times.

And how did they know this? Why, they saw one at Cactus Jungle! Photos ensued.

SENSATIONAL SUCCULENTS has some lovely photos of a Crassula “Coralita” and some very pastel coral colored blooms.

Did you know this was a hybrid? It is! It’s a cross between C. suzannae and C. falcata. And quite the cross it is.

Oregon Cactus Blog has a nice big, dark, scary-looking sempervivum variety that I’ve never seen. You’ll have to click over to see Sempervivum ‘Jungle Shadows’, but it’s worth the trip.

Seedbyte has a whole bunch of photos of a spectacular series of mixed succulent pots in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. Good stuff.

Garden Amateur in Sydney, Australia has some nice little succulents growing pots that appreciate the recent rain.

He’s got a cute little unnamed mesemb that we are calling a Hartmanthus. You’d think if it has found its way to Australia, the plant must be in wider cultivation by now, and someone should have a definitive name for it.

This Digital Life has a stunning black and white photo of an Opuntia bigelovii, also known as Cylindropuntia bigelovii. Common names include the Teddy Bear Cholla and the Jumping Cholla. Now you know more than you wanted to, so go see the picture already.

First, you paint it yellow, then you plant it up with succulents.

BaldManModPad has created the definitive filing cabinet planter.

The SF Chronicle raised their price again, to $1, after recently shrinking the paper by 1/3.

The future belongs to the internet. Blogs rulez.

On the Gates arrest, this post by Digby is very good.  As they say in the intertubes, “what Digby says.”

My personal perspective is colored by the fact that I was also once arrested for arguing with an officer, even though no laws were broken and no charges were filed. There’s no question they have power beyond upholding the law.

Bonding over Lizards had a contest to name a cactus (actually a sempervivum) and the results are in: Norbert. I’m shocked.

Idora Design went traveling to Death Valley and took some especially nice cactus photos. They also met up with lots of spiders and a red-tailed hawk. All good.

If you’re looking for more cactus bloom photos, Water When Dry always has some really nice ones throughout the Arizona spring season. Nice Parodia.

If you don’t read Plants are the Strangest People, then you haven’t been following Mr. Subjunctive’s Toxic Houseplant series, and I recommend starting with Part 1.

Burstmode has a nice photo of a “Cactus Rose” from a corporate retreat to Arizona.

Link of the Day:

Frugal Freedom eats cactus, and show you how.

Digs Inside and Out in Portland is potting up mixed succulents in odd containers for centerpieces.

The latest from Lyndsey Hamilton

We love succulents–the structure, the color.  They can serve as your centerpiece, in a bouquet, or placed anywhere throughout your wedding: cocktail tables, mini-arrangements. 

We do wedding centerpieces every year. Also, we’ve been known to do a bar mitzvah or two. No baby showers yet, though.

Click through for some beautiful centerpiece photos.

Archaic Designs Bead Obsession blog features a very nice blooming stapeliad and a delicate blooming mammalaria too.

Jen has lost her delicious succulents.

Crabapple at ART TEA LIFE knits some cactus art, or rather tagged a cactus, and meets Ed another cactus artist and surreality ensues.

Dry Stone Garden has placed an Agave medio-picta in a terra cotta egg pot next to a native fescue to nice effect, go ahead and check it out. I’ll wait for you to come back.

Out of Denver, we find a homeowner with a sense of the absurd. Via Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology it’s Downspout Saguaro sculptures.

These carefully crafted cacti are the work of a yard artist who has a soldering gun and a keen sense of how man-made materials mimic mother nature

Click through to see the amazing photo.

Christopher Pace has a very nice photo of a spider on a Kalanchoe tomentosa with a very delicate spider. Click through for the big one.

Boing Boing guest blogger Charles found some lovely looping Aporocactus at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. The resulting photo is nice too.

I found these looping cacti in… Phoenix, where exotic species display the most amazing attributes… I admire those traits.

STESMA forever is a blog about a school in Malaysia, and they have a cactus garden. Pictures ensue. Very nice.

Cactusmania has a thing for crested cacti. Here’s a post filled with photos of Astrophytum crests. very interesting.

Welcome to My View has a very nice picture of a barrel cactus in full fruit.

Today’s image is another from the San Xavier del Bac Mission just south of Tucson, Arizona. As my friend, Suzanne, and I were leaving the mission from a short visit in early December, I saw this beautiful barrel cactus showing off it’s lovely bright yellow fruit. Behind the barrel cactus, a purple prickly pear cactus was displaying it’s lovely purple pads, making a great background for the green and yellow of the barrel cactus.

Dry Stone Garden has a very nice winter blooming Calandrinia going along the sidewalk. Pictures ensue.